The Ark Restaurant Smoked Salmon Pate Recipes

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a small saucepan, let it cool slightly.
• Place the salmon in your food processor.
• With the machine running add the butter until you have a smooth pate.
• Remove the mix from the food processor bowl and add the lemon juice, cream and check the seasoning.
• Line a dish with plastic wrap and spoon in the pate, leave in the fridge until needed but at least for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Remove from the fridge 30 minutes before serving.
• Turn the pate out on to a dish, remove the plastic wrap, garnish with a ring of cucumber slices around the pate.
• Serve with homemade Melba Toast#24802 or#40247.

Steps:

• Watercress Sauce:.
• In food processor, puree watercress, mustard, salt and pepper until smooth.
• With machine running, add oil drop by drop as mixture thickens.
• Add lemon juice, then add sour cream.
• Set aside to chill while preparing pate.
• Pate:.
• Butter a 3 1/2" X 11 1/2" X 2 1/2" terrine (or glass bread pan)and line it with buttered parchment paper (butter side up).
• Rinse 2-3 sprigs of watercress (for decoration) and lay on a paper towel to dry.
• Blanch remaining watercress in boiling water for 15 seconds, plunge into ice water. Drain and squeeze dry.
• Preheat oven to 250°F.
• In food processor, add onion, smoked salmon, salmon fillets (cut into 1" pieces), dill, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Process until mixture forms a fine paste.
• With machine running on low, slowly add heavy cream. Add eggs, one at a time; process an additional 30 seconds.
• Remove 3/4 of the mixture to a bowl.
• To the remaining 1/4 mixture, add blanched watercress, and mix by cutting through the mixture with a knife. (Mixture will not be uniform in color).
• Put one half of the reserved (no watercress) mixture into the terrine. Cut through it several times with a knife, and then bang it on the counter to settle it.
• Place the watercress-salmon mixture down the middle of the pate in the terrine, distributing as evenly as possible.
• Add the rest of the salmon mixture. Bang it twice to settle it.
• Cover with a piece of buttered parchment paper. Bake in a water bath for 15 minutes at 250°F Turn heat down to 225°F and bake an additional 25 minutes.
• Pate will be firm, but not hard.
• Wait at least 5 minutes and unmold onto a serving plate. Decorate the top of the pate with reserved watercress.
• Serve thin slices with watercress sauce laced diagonally across.

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients and thin down with a little mayonnaise or lemon juice if desired.
• Enjoy.

Steps:

• Combine all the ingredients and mix well.
• Put in a serving dish, cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• Garnish with extra dill.

Steps:

• To make a simple tomato sauce, heat the oil in a small skillet. Add the tomato and salt and cook over low heat for two to three minutes, until the tomato is softened. Strain, pressing with the back of a wooden spoon to extract as much liquid as possible. Reserve four tablespoons.
• Put the smoked and fresh salmon in the bowl of a processor or blender and beat until smooth. Beat in the eggs, reserved tomato sauce and pepper. With the motor running, pour in the cream gradually. With an on-off motion, blend in the ham. Taste for salt.
• Butter a 9 1/4-by-5 1/4-by-2 3/4-inch loaf pan generously, then dust with bread crumbs. Pour half of the salmon mixture into the pan. Arrange the avocado halves cut side down (if the halves seem to protrude too far for the rest of the salmon to cover them, trim the cut side) and cover with the rest of the salmon.
• Cover the pan tightly with foil and place in a larger pan of hot water (bain-marie). Bring to a boil on top of the stove, then lower the heat to medium low and continue cooking for one-and-a-half hours. Remove the mold from the water, loosen the foil and cool. Refrigerate until cold. Unmold and serve chilled and sliced.

Steps:

• In a bowl, blend all ingredients until smooth.
• Transfer to a glass bowl.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight.